Tony Blair Quotes

A turning point in modern history.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

This is a turning point in human history.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History of the United States. That took five years. Co-author Peter Kuznick has been teaching history for something like 35 years, at American University and other places. His group of researchers brought me into contact with a lot of books.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

History isn't through with me yet.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.